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...recent pieces memorialized the "Forgotten Heroes of the Civil Rights Struggle." It clearly wasn't insensitive, But it did make "a remote reference to Blacks." And anyway, many would respond that 1990 wasn't so long ago. Kennedy says that because the 1990 article was written by a Black staffer, it's okay...
...general atmosphere remains tense, marked by infighting and pitched camps; angry, controversial outbursts are not rare. When staffer Rebecca L. Eisenberg's proposal for an independent review of the journal's procedure of selecting editors failed to pass, she said she could only assume "the white men on the organization would like to keep it as their preserve...
...damages for what, on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed were "calculated falsehoods." By the time the decision came down, however, Eszterhas had come into his own as a star writer for Rolling Stone, specializing in tough stories about bikers and narcs while adopting the freaky style of fellow staffer Hunter S. Thompson. Former colleague Grover Lewis recalls that Eszterhas first showed up wearing "a 9-to-5 haircut and polyester suits" but soon sported buckskins and long hair and "would stab a hunting knife into the conference table to emphasize his story ideas." Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner sensed...
...slightly crazy with his mania for details. Chao recalls having to re-edit a promotional spot for the series Cops 15 times before Diller was satisfied. His combative style was stimulating to some, debilitating to others. "It's the yell-in-your-face school of management," says an ex-staffer. But for Diller, passionate argument is not just a matter of temperament; it is a management philosophy. "Arguing out of conviction and belief is positive to the creative process," he says. "Years ago I started to worry, How do you keep your instincts clean? How do you get to what...
...information to the press and lamented his Administration's maladroit handling of the gays-in-the-militar y crisis. He warned his team to stop dumping on each other in print, to "rise above the Washington culture" and "live by your values, not theirs." The clear message, said a staffer, was that Clinton still believes he can change the way things work in the nation's capital...